Enlightening Points Deduced from the Holy Quran about Leadership with Divine Authority)
Al-Kāfi|Volume 1|Book 4|Chapter 108
Al-Kāfi
Book 4, Chapter 108
Enlightening Points Deduced from the Holy Quran about Leadership with Divine Authority)
17ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقاً عَنْ طَبَقٍ قَالَ يَا زُرَارَةُ أَ وَلَمْ تَرْكَبْ هَذِهِ الامَّةُ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا طَبَقاً عَنْ طَبَقٍ فِي أَمْرِ فُلانٍ وَفُلانٍ وَفُلانٍ.
17. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Mahbub from Jamil ibn Salih from Zurara from abu Ja‘far عليه السلام about the words of Allah, the Most High. “. . you will certainly pass through one stage after another.” (84:19). The Imam عليه السلام said, “O Zurara, Has this ’Umma (nation) not passed through stages after the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and the affairs of three so and sos?”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/20)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 50